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The Great White Way

By Carrie McLaren, Stay Free! Magazine. Posted January 14, 2005.


Long before Adolf Hitler hit his stride, American activists worked to breed a better, whiter race. Historian Daniel Kevles discusses the U.S. eugenics movement, Fitter Families, and efforts to segregate, sterilize, and castrate the "unfit."
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Carrie McLaren is the editor of Stay Free! Magazine.

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